A broad array of domestic institutional factors--including problems with the originate-to-distribute model for mortgage loans, deteriorating lending standards, deficiencies in risk management, conflicting incentives for the GSEs, and shortcomings of supervision and regulation--were the primary...

We examine foreign acquisitions of United States banks around the time of the ownership change to determine whether the observed poor performance of foreign subsidiaries is the result of changes in business strategy or the preexisting characteristics of the target bank. We find that many of the...

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Discourses on globalization and transnational corporations are divided. One school of thought supports corporate activities in improving a state, while another stands against corporations, hoping to protect developing states from corporate misdeeds. This paper examines the impact of foreign...

This dissertation studies how the evolution of information technology could facilitate bilateral FDI activities, the channels for international R&D spillovers, and which exchange rates matter for FDI.Applying an IT-augmented gravity specification to bilateral FDI data from 1980 to 1997, the...

Thesis (MPhD)--University of South Australia, 2007.

A fundamental unresolved issue is whether information asymmetries underlie investors' predisposition to invest close to home (i.e., domestically or locally). The authors conduct experiments in the United States and Canada to investigate agents' portfolio allocation decisions, controlling for the...